Redirect to a virtual server on another server

[Sarky78]

Hi All,

I'm hoping someone will be able to help on this, at the moment our IT department is saying that its not possible, but I think everything is possible. So here we go.....

We have a website that when it was developed it was running ASP/IIS and had a CMS that was based on ASP for the main site. There are then sub applications on the site that are accessed from a virtual directory that are standalone and are again written in ASP/IIS.

Due to stability issues with the ASP CMS, someone had the idea to switch the main site over to a PHP solution running on IIS. this has also had stability issues. so now we are looking to move the PHP solution onto a Linux box - where it should have been in the 1st place - to ensure the main site doesn;t suffer from the PHP/Windows issues we have encountered.

Now the issue we have is the current setup has virtual directories within IIS that cater for a couple of sub sites. these are currently accessed by

http://www.sitename.com/subsiteone

or

http://www.sitename.com/subsiteone.

both of these sub directories are running ASP.

So...my question here is, does anyone know how we can have an apache webserver have a virtual directory that points to the code base/website on a Windows server? We can't use another domain name, can't have anything that changes the url in the browser or use something like an iFrame.

Thanks in advance

Tony

 

[Noway2]

You should be able to use either a rewrite rule or mod_proxy.

I am running short on time at the moment, so I can't go into a lot of details, but there were some posts recently in this forum about doing just this.

 

[smah]

Yes, a reverse proxy setup should do just what you need.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html